Today, Apple is a $3.5 trillion company with over 150,000 employees worldwide. Fifty years ago, it was two Steves – Jobs and Wozniak – working out of a Los Gatos garage. (All great Silicon Valley origin stories seem to include a garage.) Since its inception, Apple has not only introduced culture shifting technology like the Macintosh computer and iPhone, it has also influenced how we live here in the Bay Area, on the edge of the continent and a future being cast by technologists, innovators, and entrepreneurs. We talk about the influence of Apple.

Guests:

Margaret O'Mara, professor of American History, University of Washington; author, "The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America"

Hansen Hsu, curator, Software History Center at the Computer History Museum; former Apple employee; historian and sociologist

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